Pubdate: Sat, 1 May 2013
Source: New York Post (NY)
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Author: David Seifman

MIKE: MED POT A HOAX

Mayor Bloomberg got huffy and puffy yesterday
discussing medical marijuana, describing efforts
to legalize it as one of the greatest health scams in history.

Medical, my foot,=94 the mayor said. =93There's no
medical. This is one of the great hoaxes of all time.=94

Bloomberg is concerned that recreational users
would game a system intended only for those with medical needs.

The bottom line is I'm told marijuana is much
stronger today than it was 20, 30 years ago,=94
Bloomberg said on his weekly WOR radio show.
=93That's one problem. No. 2, drug dealers have
families to feed. If they can't sell marijuana, they=92ll sell something
 else.=94

While running for office in 2001, he admitted to
experimenting with pot in his younger days.

You bet I did =AD and I enjoyed it,=94 he boasted.

State Sen. Diane Savino, who's pushing
legislation to legalize medical marijuana in New
York, offered to bring cancer patients to City
Hall to demonstrate the need for weed=ADbased relief.

And doctors blasted Hizzoner's attack.

Mayor Bloomberg's statement that medical
marijuana is a hoax is tantamount to saying that
the moon landing was faked,=94 said Dr. Sunil
Aggarwal, vice=ADchair of New York Physicians for Compassionate Care.
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